Suman has started Tsunami Help India where one can pub­lish any related infor­ma­tion via email.

Sulekha has also started a fund along with AID.

This from BBC: The Indian gov­ern­ment has announced plans for installing a tsunami early warn­ing sys­tem in the wake of the Indian Ocean disaster.

Google has this page with links on how you can help with relief.

The World car­ries an audio report by Clark Boyd on how sur­vivors of Asia’s tsunamis are using weblogs to help deal with the after­math of the dis­as­ter. The audio tran­script is here.

Ramd­han is also col­lect­ing dona­tions online.

And accord­ing to this news report, India is not refus­ing for­eign aid, but just ask­ing other coun­tries to wait a while till as the funds in the Indian kitty is yet to be utlised.

This NBC5 arti­cle reports that offi­cials in the Mal­dives said the very exis­tence of their island nation is at risk after Sunday’s tsunami. Quote: “The country’s lead­ing envi­ron­men­tal­ist said the Mal­dives are ‘the world’s lowest-lying coun­try’ — with the aver­age island only three feet above sea level. Although its death toll is reported in the dozens, rather than the thou­sands, a gov­ern­ment spokesman said, ‘Life as we know it in this coun­try is in some parts gone’.”

Another inter­est­ing story on ani­mals and their sixth sense.

An arti­cle about how Indian offi­cials might have bun­gled an alert oppor­tu­nity. A fax by the Indian Met depart­ment was sent at about 8.45 am — but to the wrong per­son. The country’s top sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy offi­cial told a paper that his depart­ment learnt of the tsunami strike from the tele­vi­sion. The Cri­sis Man­age­ment Group, India’s main emer­gency response body, only met at 1pm, much after the devastation.

Mean­while, accord­ing to sources, the death count, which has soared past 77,000, might exceed 100,000.

UPDATE: Pallavi has a detailed post about vol­un­teers from Ban­ga­lore head­ing out the affected area and what they are col­lect­ing. Please visit this link.